Feature Request: Widescreen/Eyefinity Support

[JacqylFrost]

Any chance you guys are going to update these to work properly in widescreen and eyefinity? They can be made to run at any resolution via an ini file, but it'd be nice to have proper resolution detection in the menu, or at the very least just fix the HUD for WS and Eyefinity.

When Return to Castle Wolfenstein's source was released, a guy did a fix for them for widescreen and triplehead, I've mirrored his source code here: https://github.com/thelolotov/RTCW-WSGF

He unfortunately seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, otherwise I'd just ask him.

Anyone willing to give this a go? It would be amazing to have widescreen and eyefinity working properly in these games, and it couldn't be that hard to port from another Q3-based game, his solution was kind of bare-bones, but it worked.

I have the programming capabilities of a legless frog, otherwise I'd try and do this myself, but if there's any way I can help, please don't hesitate to ask. I can clear up any confusion regarding my request, etc. If someone does do this, I can give you guys a plug on wsgf.org, as I am staff there.

Thanks either way, guys!

[mrwonko]

That shouldn't be too hard... Make the menu position & size controllable via cvar so you can place it on the center screen, basically. Maybe allow the screen center to be set via cvar (influencing the projection matrix) for people who use differently sized screens.

Thanks for mentioning this, this is exactly the kind of thing we can do now and that fits well into this project.

[eezstreet]

I have menu stuff worked out for one of the mods I'm going to be working on for JK2. Its more of a mod-specific thing.

Mostly what needs to be fixed is the FX stuff for flashes, which don't properly stretch to fit the screen. That's about the only feature lacking from "widescreen support", unless you want to hack up font drawing and stuff like that. Mostly modcode being touched on here though.

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From: Jacob M. Davismailto:notifications@github.com
Sent: ‎4/‎6/‎2013 4:29 PM
To: Razish/OpenJKmailto:OpenJK@noreply.github.com
Subject: [OpenJK] Feature Request: Widescreen/Eyefinity Support (#36)

Any chance you guys are going to update these to work properly in widescreen and eyefinity? They can be made to run at any resolution via an ini file, but it'd be nice to have proper resolution detection in the menu, or at the very least just fix the HUD for WS and Eyefinity.

When Return to Castle Wolfenstein's source was released, a guy did a fix for them for widescreen and triplehead, I've mirrored his source code here: https://github.com/thelolotov/RTCW-WSGF

He unfortunately seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, otherwise I'd just ask him.

Anyone willing to give this a go? It would be amazing to have widescreen and eyefinity working properly in these games, and it couldn't be that hard to port from another Q3-based game, his solution was kind of bare-bones, but it worked.

I have the programming capabilities of a legless frog, otherwise I'd try and do this myself, but if there's any way I can help, please don't hesitate to ask. I can clear up any confusion regarding my request, etc. If someone does do this, I can give you guys a plug on wsgf.org, as I am staff there.

Thanks either way, guys!

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#36

[JacqylFrost]

I can't quantify how happy it makes me that people actually care about this. I wrote some memory hacks about a year ago for both of these games to center the HUD in eyefinity and widescreen, but I never managed to implement them very well. They worked, I just didn't really have an elegant delivery system for them.

As I said, someone else has done the work, someone with programming ability just needs to re-implement it.

These games were a huge part of my childhood, and I'd love to be able to play them again in eyefinity.

[JacqylFrost]

@eezstreet Yeah, it works okay in widescreen, but the HUD is stretched, and it's stretched in Eyefinity too, where it becomes one hell of an eyesore, and also nearly unusable.

[mrwonko]

Hud stretching in widescreen is hard to fix. At least universally. We can fairly easily create a 16:9 and a 16:10 hud-mod, but writing a hud system that allows for arbitrary resolutions is a lot harder.

The "show any existing menu only on center screen" thing... yeah, that's a mod thing. We can't magically make it work in mods. But @eezstreet, I think we should put this into the modbase.

[JacqylFrost]

Fixing it automatically is hard to fix, yes, but if you just make the values for width and location more accessible, it'd be enough. I wrote a fix to center the HUD in eyefinity, just spent some time in cheatengine finding the location of the width value, divided that by 3, and found the location value nearby, incremented that by 1/3 the screen resolution.

Really, all I want/expect is an entry in a cfg to let me set the width and location of the HUD, right now I have to use memory hacks, which are a real pain to write and implement, not to mention deliver.

I'll post my cheatengine notes if they'll help, they should list the values that need to be modified.

[mrwonko]

Yeah, that's just how I understood it.

I know this is possible

We've got the full sourcecode, anything is possible.

[JacqylFrost]

Managed to get my CheatEngine scripts working again

Before fix:
http://i.imgur.com/xToe12sh.jpg
After fix:
http://i.imgur.com/3MR1bNCh.jpg

[cadika-orade]

Most impressive. Care to share how you accomplished this hack? I am familiar with CheatEngine, but I've never done anything like this with it. o_O

[JacqylFrost]

http://pastebin.com/NpV9vgwf
http://pastebin.com/XeyR9sjg
http://pastebin.com/AZDwPinu
http://pastebin.com/qVA3psNP

That's how. Find the HUD width, divide by three, then you have to get dirty with assembly to push it to the middle.

[eezstreet]

How about porting this to OpenJK? ;)

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Subject: Re: [OpenJK] Feature Request: Widescreen/Eyefinity Support (#36)

http://pastebin.com/NpV9vgwf
http://pastebin.com/XeyR9sjg
http://pastebin.com/AZDwPinu
http://pastebin.com/qVA3psNP

That's how. Find the HUD width, divide by three, then you have to get dirty with assembly to push it to the middle.

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#36 (comment)

[JacqylFrost]

That's what I'm asking for. I'm not skilled enough to do this myself. Big difference between dirty memory hacking and actual programming.

[owenworley]

Ill take a look at this tonight unless someone beats me to it.

[Razish]

We may want to wait until #60 is resolved and the game has some sort of understanding of multiple monitors. It could affect how we determine when/how to scale the HUD.

[owenworley]

You are probably right Razish, any fix for this issue may need to be changed once multi-monitor support is implemented. Will hold off for now then :)